Auction Catalogue

28 June 2000

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 1143

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28 June 2000

Hammer Price:
£320

Five: Corporal C. R. Culley, Royal Fusiliers

1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Africa Star,
clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals; together with related British War Medal 1914-20 (209275 Gnr. L. W. S. Culley, R.A.); unofficial Second War Medals (2); economy issue Royal Fusiliers cap badge; cloth insignia (4); quantity of original documentation, including, letters written by recipient whilst on active service (57); letters written by recipient whilst a prisoner of war (71), Stalag identity tag, inscribed ‘33048, Stalag VIIIB’; Book, Always A Fusilier, The War History of The Royal Fusiliers 1939-45, by C. Northcote Parkinson; modern reference books regarding the Salerno landings (2); and a quantity of newspaper cutting‘s and other miscellaneous paperwork, generally extremely fine (8) £150-200

Corporal Cecil R. Culley was taken prisoner of war at the Salerno landings, Italy in September 1943.